The British School Jakarta has been present in Jakarta for over 40 years and has a role of 1,400 students aged 3 to 18. In 2015, BSJ decided to implement Lexis Education's Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms (TEMC) course, a language-based pedagogy to accelerate multilingual …
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Providing a high-challenge curriculum for all students
Providing a high-challenge curriculum for all students By Brian Dare When we take a moment to consider the range of texts students are expected to compose and comprehend in any schooling context, we begin to understand the enormity of the meaning-making challenge that all students face as they …
Lexis Education now a COBIS Supporting Member
We are excited to announce that Lexis Education is now a COBIS Supporting Member. COBIS is the premier global membership association for British international schools overseas. COBIS delivers world-class quality assurance and external validation through the COBIS Patron’s Accreditation and …
International Academy Amman
An interview with Lois L. Warner Ph.D., Assistant Director for Curriculum at the International Academy Amman Do you find the Lexis Education programs to be cost effective? As the director of PD at my school, I have been looking for this model (train-the-trainer) to fill as many of our needs as …
Second Language Learners in International Schools
New book champions NNESTs and TESMC in ESL and MT provision by Maurice Carder In many international schools the majority of students aren’t native speakers of the school’s Language of Instruction, which in 90% of cases is English. Clearly then, the schools need to provide a programme structure, …
Two broad levels of scaffolding for effective classrooms
Do you want to be notified of new posts by email? Subscribe to our newsletter here. Words by Brian Dare, Director at Lexis Education What is scaffolding? The metaphor used to capture the way in which a teacher provides particular kinds of support within the interactions taking place between …